poetry Quotes

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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“Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

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“Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“She's brim full of poetry—actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She LIVES what paper-poets only write...”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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